modify
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Every sight, smell, sound, and action experienced by an animal can modify the connections involved in producing these waves.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
Open-source, as the name suggests, refers to source code that is available in full for anyone to take, use or modify.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Investigators also seized about 20,000 rounds of ammunition, including armor-piercing rounds, multiple firearm suppressors and about 15 firearm milling fixtures used to illegally manufacture and modify AR-15-style lower receivers, according to the statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
"In a private company, you can take risks more quickly," said Trotsenko, explaining how small companies were incentivised to modify and adapt at speed to win contracts.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
“To work on them and modify them and all that. Don’t you think?”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
On Kalshi, Boss places 60 trades a minute and modifies his bids and asks 30 times a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
It modifies a law dating to 2006 that forced foreign investors to form joint ventures with state oil company PDVSA, which insisted on a majority stake.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic modifies the brothers’ original sentence to 50 years to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
In November, after various unsuccessful trials, Olivia was given a novel Car-T treatment – immunotherapy which genetically modifies a patient's T-cells to attack cancer.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
Many of our “symptoms” of disease actually represent ways in which some damned clever microbe modifies our bodies or our behavior such that we become enlisted to spread microbes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Instead, early forms retained and modified features inherited from aquatic ancestors, spending an extended period in a semi-aquatic, amphibious way of life.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
The company touts open models, which can be downloaded and modified, as opposed to closed models like those of rivals OpenAI or Anthropic.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Open-source AI refers to models that can be freely used and modified.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
You don’t want a low-quality battery that might catch fire, or a compromised or modified circuit board that bypasses normal security guards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The resonant nasal tones of his voice became modified.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
But either upgrading infrastructure to climate resiliant schools or modifying the academic year would need institutional change with the possibility of a lot of investment.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
A few times lately, I’ve caught myself modifying my own work to sound “less like A.I.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The research team is preparing larger clinical studies involving multiple hospitals while modifying the antenna for additional organs, including the heart and kidneys.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
The U.S. has been constantly modifying the B-52 to extend its life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Roses were not roses but “flecks of white or red modifying masses of green.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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